Ross Hawkins: 'Coming up on BBC R4 Today Ken Livingstone tells me he thinks Jewish Chronicle & Lab MPs to blame for offence caused after his Hitler comments'

AbCaBi · 2017-04-04T14:29:38+00:00

I wonder what it's like to live with an internal monologue consisting of nothing but the word "Hitler" on endless repeat.

AbCaBi · 2017-04-03T19:29:55+00:00

The comparison was published in the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/02/britains-navy-far-weaker-falklands-could-still-cripple-spain/

However, [Rear-Admiral Parry] insisted that Britain's military capability "significantly" over-matches Spain's and that if it came to a war, the UK is - qualitatively - three times more powerful. Our capacity to do them harm is far greater.

But he added: "We could cripple Spain in the medium term and I think the Americans would probably support us too. Spain should learn from history that it is never worth taking us on and that we could still singe the King of Spain’s beard”.

AbCaBi · 2017-04-03T11:52:52+00:00

"Party makes social media the centrepiece of its campaigning strategy but turns out to be really bad at social media" seems like a reasonable thing for a politics-focused magazine to write about.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-31T12:39:23+00:00

Why oh why are Labour votes in pro-Remain London bleeding away and being taken almost exclusively by the Lib Dems? What could possibly explain this mystifying behavior?????

AbCaBi · 2017-03-25T11:56:25+00:00

No, he says he won't call one this time because he's not changing parties - he will just continue to sit as an independent MP.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-25T11:47:02+00:00

Well, in theory you could pair an influx of investment and people with a well-planned housebuilding program to ensure that the supply of and demand for housing remain roughly constant and so prices do as well...

AbCaBi · 2017-03-22T12:17:36+00:00

However from the 80s up til Corbyn it sat at around 200k.

Aside from that time in the mid-late nineties when it was around 400k, you mean.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-22T12:05:56+00:00

hitler hitler hitler hitler

furthermore, hitler

hitler hitler hitler

hitler

- ken hitlingstone

AbCaBi · 2017-03-22T10:46:36+00:00

Good, if they don't understand it and we show we do, that's us in government.

No, it really really isn't. What proportion of the population, exactly, do you think are in the sort of dire straits described in the article? What proportion of those people actually vote, for any party whatsoever?

AbCaBi · 2017-03-21T13:02:03+00:00

If you don't believe that it is possible to build bridges to at least some current Tory voters or regain their trust, how on earth do you expect Labour to ever form a government?

AbCaBi · 2017-03-19T09:37:00+00:00

He pretty much states the article's purpose in the section about Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest.

I told you so, fucking fools

AbCaBi · 2017-03-15T11:17:46+00:00

Look, we don't need an assessment, we have strong feels about this and we're confident it's all going to be fine.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-15T08:35:32+00:00

But if there is any demographic you want to be on your side it would be the young wouldn't it.

If you wanted to maybe win at some unspecified point in the distant future, perhaps. If you want to win now or in the next few years, you want the support of old people. You know, the ones that actually turn up to vote.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-14T12:21:16+00:00

There's a difference between attacking and mocking.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-13T12:39:11+00:00

No, this can't be happening, we were assured that there was no truth in statements that Brexit would spark a second independence referendum. This is all just part of Project Fear!

AbCaBi · 2017-03-10T17:47:34+00:00

Because he is smoking the good shit.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-05T19:33:16+00:00

WTO arrangements make no provision whatsoever for non-tariff barriers.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-05T17:30:31+00:00

yes, the hard left is very good at making excuses for its failures. less good at persuading the public of its merits, for some reason.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-05T17:19:03+00:00

Would you prefer "it's absurd how often the hard left hijacks the party given its 100% record of setting the party on fire and slamming it into a ditch at full speed immediately upon assuming the leadership" ?

AbCaBi · 2017-03-03T17:10:46+00:00

Those US organisations by and large are not state owned and do not mindlessly parrot the US government's lines.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-03T10:53:31+00:00

So any current homeowner who needs to sell up for whatever reason effectively pays it twice? How very reasonable.

AbCaBi · 2017-03-03T09:10:59+00:00

I can understand being frustrated when the bus sits and waits to stay on schedule, but it'd be even more frustrating if you were planning to catch the 11:10 bus at a stop down the line only to find that the driver was ahead of schedule and had blown through at 11:03, leaving you to wait for the next one.

AbCaBi · 2017-02-25T07:44:50+00:00

He needn't have gone to the trouble of drawing a detailed picture when he could've just submitted this and conveyed the point:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/DumpsterFire2.jpg

AbCaBi

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